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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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oer its pebbles,But thrilled throughout its deepest flow With yelling of the Rebels. Again a pause, and then again The trumpets pealed sonorous,And Yankee Doodle was the strain To which the shore gave chorus. The laughing ripple shoreward flew, To kiss the shining pebbles;Loud shrieked the swarming Boys in Blue Defiance to the Rebels. And yet once more the bugles sang Above the stormy riot;No shout upon the evening rang— There reigned a holy quiet. The sad, slow stream its noiseless floodPoured oer the glistening pebbles; All silent now the Yankees stood,And silent stood the Rebels. No unresponsive soul had heard That plaintive notes appealing,So deeply Home, Sweet Home had stirred The hidden founts of feeling. ^M Or Blue or Gray, the soldier sees, As by the wand of fairy,The cottage neath the live-oak trees, The cabin by the prairie. Or cold or warm, his native skiesBend in their beauty oer him; Seen through the tear-mist in his eyes,His loved ones stand before him. (194) <&
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. AND ONE WAS GRAY WITH REBELS The photograph of Confederates on the Fredericksburg end of the ruined railroad bridge is one of the firsttelephoto photographs anywhere taken. On page 26, Volume I, of this History is reproduced a photograplimade by climbing out along the portion of the bridge standing on the eastern bank of the river. At theleft of this picture, the end of a bridge-beam is seen roughly projected against the brick wall. The photographis proof of the friendly relations existing between the two armies encamped on opposite banks of the Rappa-hannock. Men in gray, both officer and private, are actually posing before the Federal camera. GeneralGordon says: This rollicking sort of intercourse would have been alarming in its intimacy, but for the perfectconfidence which the officers of both sides had in their men. Even officers on the opposite banks of thisnarrow stream would now and then declare a truce among themselves, in order that they

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